Laura Bush Dons Hijab, Will Opprobrium Follow?

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2007-10-25-25nlook1.jpgYesterday, while, on tour in the Middle East raising breast cancer awareness (as well as working to "[restore] Washington's image in the region"), FLOTUS Laura Bush put on a traditional hijab given to her by Saudi doctor Samia al-Amudi.

Naturally, you might be wondering if you should brace yourselves for a coming torrent of outrage! After all, when Nancy Pelosi did the exact same thing back in April, the slings and arrows flew hot and heavy!

Mitt Romney, in the New York Post: "Her going to a state which is, without question, a sponsor of terror, and having her picture taken with Assad and being seen in a head scarf and so forth is sending the wrong signal to the people of Syria and to the people of the Middle East." [Note: Pelosi didn't wear the headscarf during her meeting with Assad.]


Investor's Business Daily
: "Anyone who thinks Nancy Pelosi showing up wearing a scarf around her head visiting a mosque...won't even make janitor in the foreign service."


Hot Air: "It pains the left too, I'm sure, to see the most powerful woman in America having to yield, however slightly, to a misogynistic culture's expectations..."

Instapundit: "FEMINIST IN AMERICA, subservient in Syria."

Syrian Reform Party: "No one will ever know how many women took the Hijab on after seeing Pelosi wearing it. The damage Speaker Pelosi is causing with her visit to Syria will be felt for many years to come."

Clipmarks: "Pelosi just reversed the work of the Syrian civil society and those who aspire for women's freedom in the Muslim countries many years back with her visual statement. Her lack of experience of the Middle East is showing."

The New Editor: "This picture disgusts me. What message is Nancy Pelosi trying to send?"

But don't worry! Remember: Wearing a hijab is okay when Laura Bush does it. It's okay when Condoleezza Rice does it, too!

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Poor Laura; someone's going to mistake her for a lampshade in that thing and take her back to the Lincoln Bedroom and stand her up back in her corner.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:27 AM on 10/27/2007

She can wear a chicken hat and bark like a dog,
and it still won't distract from His Fraudulency's plundering of the federal treasury to finance this sad, sorry, misbegotten misadventure...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:06 PM on 10/26/2007

If Nancy Pelosi was attacked by republicans for the same thing Laura Bush just did, Laura better be attacked too.

It's disgusting to think republicans don't understand there are different cultures around the world and a head dress symbols respect for that culture- no matter what culture laura belongs to.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 PM on 10/26/2007
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Laura looks like she's about to jump on her broom and take off.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:17 PM on 10/26/2007

I can't wait to see President Hillary Clinton humiliated in the same way..LOL. Folks who think thw world will think of us different when hillary is in charge...Hillary is nothing but a surrogate for the Great White Father genre of foreign policy that's standard practice for the US.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:39 PM on 10/26/2007
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oh for the love of God, put down the pipe
and give it a rest!

Hillary Clinton and her team will HOPEFULLY
wipe your dirty ass after your precious leader
leaves office.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:03 PM on 10/26/2007

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Wow. Could this be Chimpy"s new "war
s-tragedy"?

Fright them over here so we don"t have to fight them over there?

Or just a Halloween costume fitting?

Bush himself is rumored to be dressing up as Benedict Arnold. Cheap bastard, doesn"t have to spend a dime on a costume.

He must love Halloween too...seven years is a long time to be playing trick the American people and treat my rich friends.

The national "Nightmare on Pennsylvania Street" is almost over.

Hymen!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 10/26/2007
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Right Wing Enraged: Laura Bush Is A "Butt-Kisser" For Wearing Headscarf In Mideast

"This is Sheikha Laura, yesterday, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ¦ Laura Bush [is] butt-kissing Saudi King Abdullah." " Debbie Schlussel

Showing tolerance and respect for other cultures is interpreted as "butt-kissing" by far right conservatives.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:31 PM on 10/26/2007
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Lara Bush is the Middle East raising breast cancer awareness??

Since when did she become so concerned that the women in the Middle East learn about breast cancer or anything else for that matter?

More that 47 million Americans are without the means to get medical care for breast cancer and any other type of cancer, or pay for medications, or other serious medical conditions. When did she speak out for these people?

And how about speaking to the millions of Iraq women and children who are without even minimum medical care?

Anything for another photo-op.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:54 PM on 10/26/2007

I think you guys should respect Mrs Bush for being very polite and understanding to the saudi culture and she should be praised not villified and insulted .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:02 PM on 10/26/2007

Seeing as how Laura sleeps with a thing(GW)that is more at home under rocks then in a house, she should be villified and insulted. Maybe she crawls out from under rocks also.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:24 PM on 10/26/2007
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is she going to read to them out of a stupid book too?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:03 PM on 10/26/2007

bright creature

You said why men dont wear hijab
have you seen men in the Middle east ??

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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:56 PM on 10/26/2007
    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:54 PM on 10/26/2007

You do have a point. And the silly thing about our own culture is that so many American women get married in WHITE wedding gowns.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:09 AM on 10/27/2007
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She brought her Satanic hood scarf by mistake, and figured...

"oh well, it matches my outfit. These sand ni^%ers won't know the difference!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:48 PM on 10/26/2007
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NOBODY!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:37 PM on 10/26/2007

tick.....
tick.....
tick.....

Not a word nor picture of the wife of the President of the United States in the country that killed over 3,000 Americans on 9/11 wearing a black hijab. The MSM media in this country are the WORST. Just like the reich wing Republic party. SHAMELESS

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:14 PM on 10/26/2007

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ARGAMGEDDON! this is another prophecy from the book of Daniel come to pass;

'..and the mistress of the savior of mankind shall don the black robe and the true belivers shall bow before her and make many tapping of their feet and gnashing of their teeth against the staff of life...

...And the savior shall speak in tongues during his rule so that none shall understand him except his minions.'


All self educated red blooded Americans are Christains and know that Our country was founded by not just by the Founding Fathers (who were devote born-again Christains) but also by our Heavenly Father.

Do any of you sodomite liberals believe it is just luck that Columbus sailed the right direction towards a New World that had no existing religious beliefs?

God wanted a clean slate on which to create the first Christain country. A United States under God that would show the world how to be Christain. For example, when the Pilgrims fed the Indians and taught them farming, language, and how to live in the wintertime.

Some day, when we real Christains get through revising the New Testament so the true word of our Lord exists in it, when we"ve removed all the parts that Liberals have sneaked into it as it was being translated it over the years, stuff about the weak and the poor (and Jesus being a Jew!), and all that horse shit, George W. Bush is going to be included in it as a modern-day Profit of God.

And on the day we"re done with it Jesus is gonna return and he"s gonna be pissed off at all you evildoing liberal San Francisco sodomites. He"s gonna kick your asses around the block for drill, then throw your pathetic weak defense policy souls into the eternal fire of Lucifer"s ass-pit where you"ll burn in the greatest barbeque of sinners since the resurrection of our sweet merciful Lord.

Praise Jesus and Geroge Bush!



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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:13 PM on 10/26/2007
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Honey,

No more crack for you. Put down the pipe.

Pick up the Bible. No not the crazy one.
The King James Version.

Go straight to church. Tell them you need help.
Stay there.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:46 PM on 10/26/2007
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Nah... Go straight to church and tell them, "I'm here to help."

Within a month GirlsGone could create a religion based on the teachings of the most "wholely-sarcastic-biatch". Holidays could be planned to coincide with NASCAR.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:19 PM on 10/26/2007

Well this is quite an improvement over the white hoods that the menfolk where back home, huh.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:48 PM on 10/26/2007

ROFL!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:10 PM on 10/26/2007
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